Definition of Fire-bush

1. Noun. Evergreen South American shrub having showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers; grown as an ornamental or houseplant.

Exact synonyms: Fire Bush, Marmalade Bush, Streptosolen Jamesonii
Group relationships: Genus Streptosolen, Streptosolen
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub

2. Noun. Densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fire-bush

fiqh
fique
fiques
fir
fir-cone
fir-cones
fir clubmoss
fir clubmosses
fir cone
fir tree
fire
fire-bellied toad
fire-breather
fire-breathers
fire-breathing
fire-bush (current term)
fire-eater
fire-eaters
fire-engine
fire-fanged
fire-new
fire-on-the-mountain
fire-proof
fire-raising
fire-resistant
fire-resisting
fire-resistive
fire-retardant
fire-sale

Literary usage of Fire-bush

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches by Esther Baldwin York (1906)
"... FIRE BUSH AND ... Mr. Fitzherbert sende from Kingswear, South Devon, flowers of the Fire Bush (Embothrium ..."

2. Gardens Near the Sea: The Making and Care of Gardens on Or Near the Coast by Alice Lounsberry (1910)
"The fire bush is extremely hardy and possessed of daintily formed, vividly green foliage often ruddy tinged. It seems strange that these shrubs are not more ..."

3. World Stories Retold for Modern Boys and Girls: One Hundred and Eighty-seven by William James Sly (1914)
"Moses obeyed the Voice that spoke that day to him out of the fire-bush, and he became one of the greatest of leaders and lawgivers that this world ever saw. ..."

4. Hydrology of South Africa: Or, Details of the Former Hydrographic Condition by John Croumbie Brown (1875)
"For the last three or four days an immense tract of country has been on fire—bush and veld being ablaze—the flames advancing rapidly, and destroying ..."

5. The Encyclopædia of Evidence by Edgar Whittlesey Camp, John Finley Crowe (1907)
"... presumption of its ownership of an engine running on such road which caused the fire in question arises in an action for damages from such fire. Bush v. ..."

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